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Position Paper of Dai Nippon Printing
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Dear Workshop Chairs,
I am Yasuharu Kawahara from Dai Nippon Printing.
Our business area includes books, magazines and variety of packages.
Also these days we deal with IC cards, holograms and TV parts as well.
Regarding "Printing and Publishing" area, our target includes not only
ordinary magazines and books but also recently deployed digital
contents, and we are engaged in all the process for that, i.e.,
planning, production, distribution and selling as well as promotion
and customer analysis. In addition, we tackle new business areas for
the next generation communication, e.g., hybrid media production
solution which could be applied to the combination of paper media and
electronic media.
On the other hand, I myself have been working on variety of topics
related to content distribution including development of publication
production systems, eBooks shopping systems and content distribution
platforms other than so-called eBooks. Unfortunately, I am not
directly involved in eBooks business at the moment, but I'm very
interested in this second W3C eBooks workshop and really would like to
attend the workshop from the viewpoint of international content
distribution service using Web standards.
I do not have any specific topics to present myself, but I am very
interested in variety of topics on internationalizing eBooks including
the following, and would like to discuss these topics with experts
from all over the world.
- high level layout which is already available for paper-based books
but not yet available for eBooks
- How to deal with special kind of fonts on eBooks
- DRM and eBooks business
Sincerely,
Yasuharu Kawahara,
Dai Nippon Printing, Co., Ltd.